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Date:      Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:21:07 -0700
From:      Chris Palmer <chris@noncombatant.org>
To:        Tim Clewlow <tim@clewlow.org>, Liste FreeBSD-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A new kind of security needed
Message-ID:  <BB4DBED4-9AAA-40F8-BF7D-38D42315CCBF@noncombatant.org>
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On Jul 28, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote:

> I'd like to offer a possible solution that I believe can be both
> secure and usable. This will use the AID concept outlined above.

What is an AID, and where does it come from? Is it a sequential uid_t  
assigned at install-time, is it the SHA-256 hash of the ELF file, or  
something else? What about programs that call dlopen(3) or which are  
controllable via RPC/LPC (Benjamin Lutz mentioned DCOP)?




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